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- THE WEEK, Page 18ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTDon't Just Sit There!
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- The first interactive movie asks its audiences to get involved
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- It certainly isn't art -- more like a big-screen video game.
- The first ever interactive movie, I'm Your Man, which opened last
- week in New York, is a high-tech picture puzzle that allows an
- audience to pick its protagonist and plot the action. Choices
- come along every 90 seconds or so in this campy 20-minute
- caper, and viewers vote with a three-button pistol grip
- installed on their armrests. The on-screen tallies are
- instantaneous, thanks to laser-disc technology, and the majority
- rules. This first film (soon in seven more theaters), has 68
- possible permutations. The result is a high-decibel headache .
- . . or funfest, depending on your age and inclinations. And if
- you don't like it the first time, just keep your seat. Maybe
- next time you'll pick a winner.
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